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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.
This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.
The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.

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calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for
it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. The sea–reach of the Thames stretched before us like the
beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and
the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous
space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide
seemed

sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind
was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for
it was to come to and wait for the turn of the

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Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December
1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born novelist. Some of his works
have been labelled romantic: Conrad's supposed "romanticism" is
heavily imbued with irony and a fine sense of man's capacity for
self-deception. Many critics regard Conrad as an important
forerunner of Modernist literature. Conrad's narrative style and
anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including
Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller and
Jerzy Kosiński, as well as inspiring such films as Apocalypse Now
(which was drawn from Conrad's Heart of Darkness). Source:
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